Ruling — Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala

You asked

How do I set up the game?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqalabg-157354-en-1e

1. If this is the first play, punch out all pieces from the game's punchboards [1]. 2. Insert empty frames under the vacuum tray inside the game box to help the tray stay flush with the top [1]. 3. For 3- and 4-player games, each player takes 8 Camels and 1 Turn marker of their chosen color; extra pink and blue Camels and Turn markers are not used [1]. 4. For 2-player games, one player takes all 11 Pink Camels and 2 Turn markers, while the other takes all 11 Blue Camels and 2 Turn markers [1]. 5. In a 2-player game, each player takes two Turn markers instead of one [1]. 6. Each player also gets 50 Gold Coins (9 coins worth '5' each and 5 worth '1' each) [1]. 7. Mix all 30 Tiles and place them randomly face up to form a 5 x 6 rectangle called the Sultanate [1]. 8. Mix all 90 wooden Meeples in the bag, then grab and drop them in random sets of 3 on each Tile [1]. 9. Place the Bid Order & Turn Order Tracks next to the Sultanate [1]. 10. Randomly place the players' Turn markers on the Bid Order track [1]. 11. Shuffle all Resource cards to form a face down draw pile, then draw the top 9 cards and lay them face up in a row next to the pile [1]. 12. Shuffle the Djinns' cards and set them face down in a draw pile, then draw the top 3 and lay them face up next to the pile [1]. 13. Place the Palm Trees, Palaces, and all remaining Gold Coins in a bank within easy reach of the players [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook · p.2 · Settingupthegame

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 250 ms · ask 6721 ms · total 1318911 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 1311931 ms · generation 6980 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Settingupthegame", "sharpsignalDocId": 285}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 285 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 285 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
debug row retained until: Nov 6, 2026 14:31

retrieval — what the search arm returned

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.

per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

fused rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	Settingupthegame	p.2	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	2. Player's Actions · 2.1 Move Turn Marker · 2.2 Move Meeples	p.4	0.032258 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	Days of Wonder Online	p.8	0.031746 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	1. Bid for Turn Order	p.3	0.03125 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	1. Bid for Turn Order	p.3	0.030769 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	2.3 Tile Control Check · 2.4 Tribes Actions · Yellow Viziers Tribe · White Elders Tribe	p.5	0.030303 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	Object of the game · Victory Points · Gameturn	p.3	0.029851 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	There are 3 rules you must respect while moving these Meeples:	p.5	0.029412 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	Settingupthegame	p.2	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 250 ms · first delta 4015 ms · total 1318911 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 1311931 ms · retrieval 250 ms · ask 6721 ms · gateway work 6980 ms · total 1318911 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2864
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 404
tok/sec: 138.5 tok/sec — 404 output tokens in 2.917 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 31s ago)
stream path: streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
watchdog: first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
num_ctx · think posture: both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.

disposition

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered): answered — no abstain rationale applies

setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render

decision: NO_APPROVED_CHECKLIST — setup-shaped, but no approved setup checklist exists for this game
pattern that matched: SETUP — "setup" / "set up"
matched words (in the normalized question): set up

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 214), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one

Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.